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Vega, Lyra's brightest star, is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and forms a corner of the famed Summer Triangle asterism. Beta Lyrae is the prototype of a class of binary stars known as Beta Lyrae variables. These binary stars are so close to each other that they become egg-shaped and material flows from one to the other.
HD 174179 is a single [8] star in the northern constellation of Lyra.It has a white hue and is dimly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.06. [2] The star is located at a distance of approximately 1,280 light years from the Sun based on parallax, [1] but is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −15 km/s.
Vega is the brightest star in the constellation of Lyra. α Lyrae ( Latinised to Alpha Lyrae ) is the star's Bayer designation . The traditional name Vega (earlier Wega [ 15 ] ) comes from a loose transliteration of the Arabic word wāqi' ( Arabic : واقع ) meaning "falling" or "landing", via the phrase an-nasr al-wāqi' ( Arabic ...
R Lyrae, also known as its Flamsteed designation 13 Lyrae, is a 4th magnitude semiregular variable star in the constellation Lyra, approximately 350 light years away from Earth. It is visible to the naked eye. It is a red giant star of the spectral type M5III, currently at the last stages of evolution.
HD 173416, also named Xihe, is a star with an orbiting exoplanet in the northern constellation of Lyra.It is located at a distance of approximately 433 light years based on parallax measurements, [2] but is drifting closer to the Sun with a radial velocity of −61 km/s. [5]
HD 180450 is a single [4] star in the northern constellation of Lyra, positioned about half a degree to the NNW of the globular cluster M56. [5] At an apparent visual magnitude of 5.88, [2] it is dimly visible to the naked eye under good viewing conditions.
Theta Lyrae (θ Lyr) is a star in a trinary star system, in the constellation Lyra, approximately 760 light years away from Earth.Theta Lyrae is an orange bright giant star of the spectral type K0II, which means that it possesses a surface temperature of about 5,000 K, and is many times bigger and brighter, yet cooler, than the Sun.